In his most recent column for Townhall, Paul Hsieh examines one of the most important questions raised by ObamaCare. He begins with the following hypothetical:
Suppose you move to Las Vegas, and you hire a real estate agent to help you buy a house. She returns with several inappropriate choices—all too expensive and too far from your […]
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HSIEH: WHO WILL YOUR DOCTOR WORK FOR UNDER OBAMACARE?
NEWT: HEALTH CARE SHOULD BE DELIVERED ‘WITHIN A FRAMEWORK SET BY GOVERNMENT’
More evidence that Newt Gingrich has been on the wrong side of every aspect of the health care debate. In this video, from a discussion with congressional staffers in 2003, he compares the government’s role in health care to that which it played in building the interstate highway system … sigh.
[ht Breitbart]
HSIEH: SCREENING FOR TERRORISTS VERSUS SCREENING FOR CANCER
In his latest op-ed for Pajamas Media, Paul Hsieh points out one of the profound ironies of our era:
Our government currently tells air travelers, “Submit to our screening despite the dubious effectiveness, bodily invasion, and needless emotional distress”
And yet:
In the realm of health care the federal government has adopted a new policy of discouraging routine […]
BRITAIN’S NHS KILLS AGAIN WITH BOGUS ‘DO NOT RESUSCITATE’ ORDER
Last month we learned that Britain’s National Health Service was routinely killing elderly patients by making inappropriate use of “do not resuscitateâ€? orders. If you thought that scandal put a stop to the practice, think again:
A Mum died gasping for breath in hospital after she was WRONGLY given a ‘do not resuscitate’ tag. The frantic […]
SUDDENLY CANCER SCREENING IS A BAD IDEA
The United States has long enjoyed the best cancer survival rates on the planet. This was largely due to early detection via screening for prostate, breast and cervical cancer.
Moreover, until a couple of years ago, all credible experts agreed that such screening should continue. Then came ObamaCare and Washington’s desire to ration health care.
Now the story on […]
THE LEFT HAS BECOME COMFORTABLY DUMB
My column in today’s American Spectator discusses progressive cluelessness about how often they can pick the taxpayer’s pocket in order to fund frivolous luxuries:
Today I received an email from a cycling group to which I belong. It was marked ‘urgent’ and its subject line read: ‘Federal Bike Funding Under Attack Again.’ It implored me to […]
VIDEO: HOW REGULATIONS HURT PATIENTS
In 2004, Christopher Conover conducted a study for the Cato Institute that showed how government regulation costs lives:
4,000 more Americans die every year from costs associated with health services regulation than from lack of health insurance.
Even if one declines to accept that particular finding, there’s no doubt that overregulation is bad for patients. Dr. Lee Hieb explains why:
[ht Paul […]
HSIEH: DON’T BLAME CAPITALISM FOR HIGH HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS
Over at The Undercurrent, Paul Hsieh has a good column about the high cost of benefit mandates that states—and now the feds—impose on health insurance carriers:
State regulators currently require health insurers to include numerous “mandatory benefits,” whether customers wish to purchase them or not. The exact mandatory benefits vary from state to state, but might include services […]
ALL YOUR HEALTH INFO ARE BELONG TO U.S.
Remember HIPAA? That’s the federal law that says, among other things, that no one has a right to see your confidential health information without your permission. Well, it would appear that there is at least one entity to which HIPAA apparently doesn’t apply—the federal government itself:
In a proposed rule from Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the […]
WOLF ON WHY THE OBAMACARE FIGHT IS ABOUT MUCH MORE THAN HEALTH CARE
In his latest column for the Washington Times. Milton Wolf discusses something that is too often forgotten as we watch the legal battles over ObamaCare’s individual mandate—-this is a fight for individual liberty:
Freedom is man’s power to exercise his own faculties as he chooses as long as he prohibits no other man from doing the same. […]